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As most of you may know, the only way to learn something is to commit to it, be it cats, iOS betas, or pixel art. I’m liking my experience with r/SketchDaily, though I realize many of the art subreddits are dead (sometimes no posts since over 3 years). I guess those have gone to Facebook.
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For r/SketchDaily, theme Bump in the Night. Didn’t have much time, so I shrunk it down to 32 by 32 pixels, on my Game Boy compatible canvas (160 x 144 pixels, 4 colors). Drawing time: 1u18m, using Pixaki on 9th gen iPad. I didn’t copy the reference slavishly—it doesn’t work at such a small scale.
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I ran my first 3+ hours run in my Fall marathon schedule as a run-walk-run. My easy pace for a 4 hour marathon is between 6 and 8 min/km, the slower, the better (since it hurts less and has a similar effect on one’s endurance). The average was around 7 min/km, (11 min/mi).
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For r/SketchDaily, theme Dusty Old Books. Game Boy Advance pixel art (240 x 160, 11 colors). Titles from a Good Reads list tagged “dusty books.”
- Animal Farm, by George Orwell
- The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
- The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Lord of the Rings; Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling
- The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern
- Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- 1984, by George Orwell
- Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
- Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
Drawing time: 5h02' in 2 sessions.
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Free Draw Friday on r/SketchDaily. Drawn w/ the demo version of ArtStudio Pro on an iPad 9th gen, from a photo of one of my late precious feline friends. This goes sooo much faster than drawing with tiny squares! I can see from tiny errors and overall messiness that I’m a bit rusty, though.
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Yep, I can still do traditional art too. Doodling in ArtStudio Pro on iPad, which now has a in-app purchase model, and a life-time purchase too. I’m tempted. The demo version can’t save, but that wasn’t a problem for my mini test-drive.
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My daily creations for r/SketchDaily were becoming ridiculously long-winded. Art engagement ≠ art skill. Likes can soon develop into a soul-sucking experience on social media sites. So I simplified. 6 is often enough for one’s art volume. I rather reserve my 11s for special occasions.
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Removing my photos page, because it broke ☹️
Meaning it stopped updating after a certain date (July 14, 2023). Don’t use something when it is broken. I tried the usual, rebuild, remove & rebuild & add back & rebuild. Nothing changed; still stuck.
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Finishing up the sandwiches wasn’t really that big of a deal. I suppose that’s my subconscious at work. Still, I worked 7 hours on it in 3 sessions over roughly 17 hours. That’s 10 hours of subconscious internal deliberation. IOW, I slept over my art piece. Next time a bit less intensive, please!
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In about six days I added two more 32 by 32 pixels portraits. These still take about an hour a piece, and I don’t see one minute for a portrait in my future. We will see how things develop, speed-painting wise. I can see progress, though. My pixels aren’t as random as before. That’s good, I think.
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